On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:43:22 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> On 10/12/2013 3:53 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: >>> >>> That function is really bogus. It states itself, that it has "intimate >>> knowledge of how different libc versions add symbols to the executable >>> and thus is probably only useable for executables compiled using gcc" >>> which is just another way of saying "it'll become outdated and broken >>> soon". It's not even done by reading the symbol table, it opens the >>> binary and matches a RE *shocked* I would have expected such hacks in >>> a shell script. >>> >>> glibc has a function for this: >>> >>> gnu_get_libc_version () >>> >>> which should be used. >> >> >> So *please* submit a patch with explanation. > > Easier said than done. The module is currently written in pure Python, > and the comment "Note: Please keep this module compatible to Python > 1.5.2" would appear to rule out the use of ctypes to call the glibc > function. I wonder though whether that comment is really still > appropriate.
if sys.version < '2.5': # I think that's when ctypes was introduced import ctypes do_the_right_thing() else: do_something_bogus() Works for me :-) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list